Recognition in adult patients of malformations induced by folic-acid antagonists

Birth Defects Orig Artic Ser. 1978;14(6B):139-60.

Abstract

Three patients are reported, two of whom had mothers who revealed ingestion of abortifacient drugs during pregnancy. All patients resemble one another and those described earlier with malformations that were probably either aminopterin- or methotrexate-induced. It is likely that Patients I and II have abnormalities associated with the teratogenic action of these folic-acid antagonists. The etiology of Patient III's defects remains uncertain.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Abnormalities, Drug-Induced / diagnosis*
  • Abnormalities, Drug-Induced / genetics
  • Abnormalities, Multiple / diagnosis*
  • Adult
  • Aminopterin / adverse effects*
  • Female
  • Growth Disorders / diagnosis*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Methotrexate / adverse effects*
  • Orofaciodigital Syndromes / diagnosis*
  • Phenotype
  • Syndrome

Substances

  • Aminopterin
  • Methotrexate